Description
Sword in the taste of the Bodyguards of the King. Triangular blade with three hollow sides of 740mm long. Bronze mounted weapon, symmetrical lyre guard plate, onion bulb pommel, single guard branch, Hercules club quillon. Wooden spindle dressed with a silver filigree with reversed chevrons, two silver ferrules. The frame is decorated with a wavy line reminiscent of the arms of the King's bodyguards. In a wooden scabbard dressed with cream painted paper glued to three steel trimmings. (2) Referenced in "Les épées portées en France" by Jean Lhoste
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Sword in the taste of the Bodyguards of the King. Triangular blade with three hollow sides of 740mm long. Bronze mounted weapon, symmetrical lyre guard plate, onion bulb pommel, single guard branch, Hercules club quillon. Wooden spindle dressed with a silver filigree with reversed chevrons, two silver ferrules. The frame is decorated with a wavy line reminiscent of the arms of the King's bodyguards. In a wooden scabbard dressed with cream painted paper glued to three steel trimmings. (2) Referenced in "Les épées portées en France" by Jean Lhoste